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plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
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Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
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An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
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Collections: The Mediterranean Iron Omni-Spear
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
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Dreams of Space -...
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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8 Places in Munich Addressing National Socialism’s Problematic Legacy
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plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
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The True Knights Templar
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
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After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there are not a lot of illustrations of space flight this book was very important to me at the time. I remember finding it in the school library and then getting my own paperback copy...
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Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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In politics, well, it depends.
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